Originally published on Waging Nonviolence In December 2010, in the small town of Sidi Bouzid in the North African country of Tunisia, a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire and ultimately took his own life as a last resort to protest police harassment and ongoing oppression under decades of dictatorship. This act…
We are pleased to announce that we have completed the 8th round of the Africa Integrity Indicators (AII) project. The full dataset is available on our AII site for you to explore and download (in Excel and CSV format). The Africa Integrity Indicators project is an annual data collection exercise—undertaken in partnership with the Mo…
Governance matters. The norms and rules that shape social relationships, including those between people and their governments, and the extent to which those rules are broadly accepted and followed within a society, play an important role in determining the prospects for social well-being, whether that is measured in terms of economic growth, social justice, access…